UK Cloud Awards 2014 landing in February

The UK cloud industry’s best companies will be recognised early next year at the very first UK Cloud Awards.

City Hall in London will play host to the UK Cloud Awards 2014 on 26 February with 19 awards in various categories covering products, providers and achievements.

The awards, which have been set up by CloudPro in conjunction with the Cloud Industry Forum and TechUK, coincide with the opening day of Cloud Expo Europe that takes in Excel London on 26 and 27 February 2014.

Each category’s winner will be selected by a panel of five judges that includes Max Cooter, editor of CloudPro, Andy Burton, founder of Cloud Industry Forum, Will Venters, information systems lecturer at London School of Economics, Maggie Holland, group editor of ITPro and CloudPro, and Ian Osborne, director of software and electronics at techUK.

The UK Cloud Awards 2014 will be split into three distinct sections with the first aiming to find the companies that are running the most innovative projects. The second one will reward cloud service providers and the third is geared towards vendors that are producing standout products for the cloud computing sector. There are also plans to hand out a special award for the cloud industry’s outstanding personality.

A full list of categories and awards is as follows:

Best cloud products

Best cloud security product

Best cloud storage product

Best cloud business continuity service

Best cloud management product

Best cloud productivity suite

Best cloud accounting suite

Best cloud service management suite

Most Innovative SMB cloud solution

Most Innovative enterprise cloud solution

Best collaboration solution

Best in Class Service Provider

Most influential newcomer

Best IaaS provider

Best cloud service provider

Achievement Awards

Best cloud project [public sector] - open to delivery company and user

Best cloud project [private sector] – open to delivery company and user